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The Jewish reformation : Bible translation and middle-class German Judaism as spiritual enterprise /

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"Jewish texts and traditions. An expression of this was the remarkable turn to Bible translation. In the century and a half between Moses Mendelssohn's pioneering translation and the final one by Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig, German Jews produced sixteen different translations of at l...

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Main Author: Gottlieb, Michah (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Mendelssohn, Moses, > 1729-1786.
Zunz, Leopold, > 1794-1886.
Hirsch, Samson Raphael, > 1808-1888.
Bible. > Old Testament. > German > Versions.
Bible. > Old Testament > Versions, Jewish.
Bible. > Old Testament > Translating > Germany.
Bible. > Ancien Testament > Versions juives.
Hirsch, Samson Raphael, > 1808-1888
Mendelssohn, Moses, > 1729-1786
Zunz, Leopold, > 1794-1886
Bible. > Old Testament
Jews > Germany > History > 18th century.
Jews > Germany > History > 19th century.
Judaism > Germany > History > 18th century.
Judaism > Germany > History > 19th century.
Germany > Ethnic relations.
Germany > Religious life and customs.
Allemagne > Vie religieuse.
Ethnic relations
Jews
Judaism
Germany
1700-1899
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • I. Haskalah : Moses Mendelssohn's moderate reformation
  • 1. The Bible as cultural translation
  • 2. Biblical education and the power of conversation
  • II. Wissenschaft and reform : Leopold Zunz between scholarship and synagogue
  • 3. Translation versus Midrash
  • 4. Bible translation and the centrality of the synagogue
  • III. Neo-orthodoxy : the Samson Rapael Hirsch enigma
  • 5. A man of no party : Hirsch's 'Nineteen letters on Judaism' as Bible translation
  • 6. The road to orthodoxy : Hirsch in battle
  • 7. The innovative orthodoxy of Hirsch's Pentateuch
  • 8. The fracturing of German Judaism : Ludwig Philippson's inclusive Israelite Bible and Hirsch's sectarian neo-orthodox Pentateuch
  • Conclusion. The Jewish counter-Reformation.